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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/588
Mutal Recognition on Trial - the Long Road to Services Liberalization.pdf
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Mutual recognition ‘on trial’: the long road to services liberalization


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Authors: Schmidt, Susanne K.  
Nicolaidis, Kalypso  
Abstract: 
In his 1986 White Paper on completing the single market, Lord Cockfield ailed mutual recognition as the miracle formula for the much needed liberalization of services markets. Twenty years later, the European Union is passing a services directive where the principle of mutual recognition is conspicuously absent, at a time when effective liberalization seems ever more necessary. How do we explain this puzzle? Why has mutual recognition been put on “trial”?
We make three interrelated arguments. First, the initial draft directive overlooked the EU’s prior experience in this area which is one of “managed” mutual recognition. Secondly, the political context had changed significantly, with enlargement exacerbating the distributional consequences of the adoption of mutual recognition. Thirdly, the final compromise succeed-ed precisely because it recovers the spirit of the managed mutual recognition, albeit in a minimalist form. Nevertheless, final agreement has come at a price: the symbolic sacrifice of the principle of mutual recognition itself.
Keywords: Liberalization; Mutual recognition; Services directive; Services trade; Single Market
Issue Date: 19-Oct-2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Journal/Edited collection: Journal of European Public Policy 
Start page: 717
End page: 734
Note: 5
Band: 14
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 1466-4429
DOI: 10.26092/elib/588
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib47913
Institution: Universität Bremen 
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
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